Introduction Science fair
Paula Evers
School organized a science fair during
quarantine. For our project we decided to
count our calories and see if we have been
eating enough, more, or less than supposed
too. We have been counting our calories for a
week and then answering all our questions with
the data we recorded.
In the following slides you can see how we have
been working and the results for our questions.
Testing the hypothesis, Experiment
To test our hypothesis and see if we are eating
enough food we decided to first investigate
how many calories we are supposed to eat.
When we found that information using a calorie
calculator we found online. First we added
information like our age, our height, our weight,
and how often we exercise. Then for a week we
wrote down what we ate in our “diary”. Every
day we counted the calories we ate. Each of us
wrote the information in our diaries in a shared
Google Document so we could all organize the
data. We also calculated an individual average
of how many calories we consumed in the
week.
Isabel Rengel, Alegría Bautista, Carolina Albuja,
Question
Are we eating more than what we’re
supposed to eat during quarantine? What
are the factors to know how many calories
we have to eat a day?
Conclusion
We reject our hypothesis,we thought we
were eating more but in average we are
consuming less than what we are supposed
to eat. We support a part of our hypothesis,
the part that we mentioned the factors to
know how many calories we need to
consume per day.We believe we are eating
less since we aren't doing as much physical
activity.
Hypothesis
Since Quarantine started, we
have eaten more than before,
this has made us gain weight.
Because, at home we can eat
at whatever time we want
unlike when we are at school.
It is also possible that some
people eat out of boredom or
nervousness.
We also think that to know
how many calories you should
consume you need to know your
height, your weight, your
age, and how much exercise
you do.
Evaluation
● We would have loved to have been more
precise with our measurements.
● We could have used more sources to be
more precise with how many calories each
food has, counting the additives.
● We could have counted how many calories
there is in each element of the food we
consumed.
● We could have worked faster.